Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3521 Q.M. Sjt: W. Aries. O. & B. L.I.) extremely fine £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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William Aries attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 9 December 1890 at the age of 18, having previously served with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was promoted Corporal in 1892; Sergeant in 1894; Colour Sergeant in 1898; and was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on 10 November 1906. He was discharged on the termination of his second period of engagement on 8 December 1911, having qualified as an instructor of musketry and the use and mechanism of the rifle calibre machine gun in 1898. The Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was his sole medal entitlement. He died in 1952.

Sold together with a small photographic image of the recipient.